Maybe she wants to volunteer on the Hillary campaign this fall?

Whatever she does, I'm certain it'll be worthwhile.

Her parents' Alma Mater, and my daughter's as well!
Maybe she'll meet her future husband while there....
I know mine did...!
Just sayin....!

I have cousins who went to Harvard Law School (years before the Obamas) but they met their wives later. It could happen for Malia, though.

but 5 minutes after setting foot on campus as a Freshman, she met her future husband, who was a Junior...
He graduated, and soon after that they eloped....!

8 years later, they are going strong...
and I have got a beautiful grandson in the bargain, so I'm not complaining!

Please don't go, BHO!

I'll return the compliment, love your avatar and sigline. Signed, another lighthouse person.

I've collected lighthouse artwork (paintings and photos) and they hang in my bedroom. The exception is a painting that I bought in Paris.

Maybe why Obama made reference to raking in cash from speeches to Goldman Sachs last evening.

Yes, I know: the security implications would be horrendous. She'd be an easy target for every miscreant with a grudge against her dad, foreign and domestic.

But the experience of total immersion in another culture would be incredible. Wondrous. For her hosts, as well as for her!

My cousins, all of whom live in Ireland and England, all took a gap year, as did all their friends. They were a lot more mature, well-read and a lot more liberal than any of my friends here that went right to university. I didn't go to uni till much later because I couldn't afford not to work (emancipated at age 16) and although I don't have any funny dorm party stories I'm glad, in retrospect, that I did work and travel first.

She'll do well there. It will be interesting to see what she decides to do in her gap year. She looks like she has grown up to be a lovely young woman.